Jonathan Kent

Jonathan Kent’s opera productions include Mozart Don Giovanni, Britten The Turn of the Screw, (Glyndebourne Festival Opera and Los Angeles Opera) Purcell The Fairy Queen (Glyndebourne, Opéra Comique, Paris and BAM, New York); Adès The Tempest, Janáček Kát’a Kabanová, Mozart Lucio Silla, Le nozze di Figaro, Moravec The Letter (Santa Fe Opera); Puccini Tosca (Royal Opera House, Covent Garden); Tippett A Child of our Time (English National Opera); Strauss Elektra and Strauss Die Frau ohne Schatten (Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg). In 1990 he established the Almeida Theatre as a full-time producing house with Ian McDiarmid and was joint artistic director for 12 years. His productions there included Ibsen When We Dead Awaken, Dryden All For Love, Euripides Medea (also West End and Broadway),